Bella's dad 'visits teen in prison for first time'

SEEN GOING INTO JAIL WHERE DAUGHTER IS HELD

- By JOHN ROGAN AND SIMON MURPHY Reporters

TEESSIDE teen Bella May Culley has been visited by her father Niel while she’s incarcerated in Georgia.

The 18-year-old disappeared in Thailand before reappearing in Georgia where she now potentially faces a life sentence after being accused of importing cannabis.

Niel was recently sighted at the prison where Bella is detained, believed to be their first meeting post-arrest.

The Brit, who has declared to the court that she’s expecting, is detained at Women’s Prison No. 5 in Rustavi, roughly a 45-minute drive from Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.

It comes as Bella's newly appointed solicitor referred to her as “not far from childhood” and expressed readiness to contest the charges.